Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever. [ARTICLE]

Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever.

The following propositions, whieh give in a condensed form the chief Conclusions of Dr. Carlos Finlay’s work on yellow fever, deserve consideration: Ordinary yellow fever is inoculable by means of the bite of the mosquito bn the third, fourth, fifth and sixth days of its natural evolution. The disease cannot be transmitted by the agency of the insect before the third day or after the sixth, no matter what the severity of the disease. The period of incubation of experimental inoculation varies as widely as that of ordinary yellow fever. The duration and severity of the fever produced by inoculation by the mosquito appeared to be proportional to the number of bites and presumably to the quantity of matter contained in the insect’s fangs.— London Lancet. A street scene in Havana: A man passes with a bunch of lottery tickets and scissors, calling out the numbers in a sing-song tone; then a horse or donkey is led by with a load of fruit or merchandise, in paniers on either side of his back; or a cow is being milked in front of a customer’s house; a man pAsses with a bunch of live chickens under his arm, or a negress with a huge cigar in her mouth; and then what from a distance looks like a row of elephants decked in green, but which on closer inspection proves to be a line of seven or eight horses, tied head to tail, so loaded with fresh fodder to a height of eight or ten feet that one can just distinguish the little animal’s nose and tail under the undulating mass of stalks. * The total vote of Nevada last year for President was 12,797 as compared with 21,660 in 1880. The Republican vote fell off 3, 202,and the Democratic 5,637, or more than 50 per cent. The decrease is due to the dullness of work in the mines. Nevada this year had one electoral vote for each 4,265 voters. In the same ratio the New York Electoral College would have consisted of 273 electors.